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[DJGM]

I'm surprised Antony hadn't started a thread about this yet, even though there's a large newsflash
about the Macworld 2006 Keynote speech by the man that a lot of Mac users seem to worship
like some kind of God, (Apple CEO Steve Jobs) on the Message Centre homepage . . .

Anyway, for what it's worth, the Macworld 2006 event starts today in San Francisco, and the big
speech from Steve Jobs takes place tomorrow. So, all of you die-hard Mac fans out there, put a
protective layer over your keyboard, and prepare yourselves to start drooling again, at all the
shiny new stuff that the boss of your favourite tech company is going to be talking about.

Here's a quick mock of how BBC News might cover the big keynote speech at this year's event:



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[Antony]

Apple made a total 5.7 billions for the quarter for the revenues.

and the successes with iPod and iTunes...
14 million iPods were sold last quarter (2005 holiday season) that can be translated to 100 iPods sold in every minute, (up from 4.5 million for the same period in 2004).
Total iPods numbers: 42 millions. (32 millions were sold in 2005 alone)

The iTunes Music Store has sold 850 million songs, the rate is 3 million songs sold per day.

What else?
iWork '06, comes with new templates and new transition effects.
.Mac has updated
iLife '06 with a new application - iWeb
iMac, new iMac, and the first Intel based Mac
MacBook Pro, the new name for PowerBook, Intel based, available February.

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[DJGM]

So, the keynote speech webcast is now avaialble to view at from the Apple website in QuickTime.
But, try as I might, all I get is a silent slideshow of Steve Jobs, which causes QuickTime to crash!

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[Antony]

[DJGM]

I used QuickTime 7 Pro on both Windows 2003 and Mac OS X 10.3.9, and it's the same on both.
If anything, it's actually worse on my Mac. It's not only silent, but it appears pixellated as well.

(And yes, it's a real Mac. I don't own any fake ones!)

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[Antony]

[Mandrake]

It worked fine here, QuickTime 7 on Windows XP.

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[Antony]

[DJGM]

PC: 450MHz Pentium II with 512MB RAM
Mac: 300MHz PPC G3 with 768 MB RAM

I don't think I'll be buying a new computer just to see Steve's latest Apple keynote address!


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[Antony]

[Edward]

MacWorld was also in Boston last year, not sure if they're bringing it back.

When the BCS (Boston Computer Society) was active (they went bankrupt in 1996 and dissolved), they had a good-sized Mac user group (known as BCSMac back then).

Some of the former BCS user groups still live on with new names, the Mac group is now the Boston Macintosh User Group.

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[Antony]

According to CNET news.com News.blog
Apple's share closed at $80.86.

Intel's 1987 processor was referred to as 8086.

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[Antony]

From CNet News.com, New Macs--Intel inside, but not outside, Apple did not join the "Intel Inside" programme.

In other words, you won't see the "Intel Inside" logo anywhere in Apple's product. However, the cardboard box for the new iMac will contain a logo for Intel's dual-core Duo processor.

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[DJGM]

Intel have dumped their old "Intel Inside" slogan anyway . . .

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[DJGM]

I've tweaked some settings in QuickTime, and now the Macworld 2006 keynote presentation is viewable.
But only just. Audio is fine, but the video framerate is very jerky indeed. Ah well, better than nothing!

I've viewed almost 20 minutes of the presentation, and despite the aforementioned technical probs,
so far, so good. But I think I should one particularly glaring untruth uttered by Steve Jobs himself.

" ... we (Apple) introduced the concept of Widgets . . . " Errr, sorry Steve. You (Apple) didn't.

Konfabulator was already doing them over two years earlier.

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